Public safety realignment — the state’s new approach to dealing with felony criminals — is being met with skepticism but its potential for reducing recidivism has been emphasized by Humboldt County’s chief probation officer. Realignment…
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On April 2nd, the California Highway Patrol rolled into Willits with enough force to overrun roughly a third of United Nations member states. Roughly 25 CHP squad cars deployed underneath The Warbler's pine tree south…
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka PPACA/Obamacare) will go into effect in January of 2014. It's a hopelessly confusing mess of non-reform foisted off on America by the health insurance combines, and…
When Governor Jerry Brown took office the feds told him to reduce California's prison population or face sanctions, so the Governor came up with the "re-alignment" program re-aligning state prison inmates to county jails.
November 28, 2012, morning: I'm sitting at my desk working. Along about 11:30, I hear the front gate click, and onto the property walks a man. Instant assessment: not a Jehovah's Witness, not a Mormon,…
About a year ago I talked with Leonard Winter, the operator of Ukiah Ambulance, about ambulance operating procedures. During the conversation Winter mentioned that he was working to roll Ukiah Ambulance into a nonprofit so…
Because my father was the minister at the Methodist churches in Boonville and Philo, and therefore I grew up in a church environment, I have always been drawn to the beauty and symbolism of the…